The Cramps

The Cramps were an American punk band, formed in 1976 and active until 2009 with the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy...

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Which musicians have spawned the most killer Halloween songs? From the bleak power rock of Black Sabbath to vamp tramps The Cramps, from the goth-punks of Bauhaus to the horror hip-hop of Gravediggaz, there's a huge pile of sonic corpses.

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...along with the PNB premiere of Jiri Kylian's 1991 ballet "Petite Mort" (music by Mozart) and revivals of Marco Goecke's "Mopey" (music by C.P.E. Bach and The Cramps) and Jerome Robbins' "West Side Story Suite" (music by Leonard Bernstein).

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...my young life: The Ramones, Talking Heads, the Dead Boys, Television, Blondie, Richard Hell, the Voidoids, the Misfits, The Shirts, The Cramps, Mink de Ville, The Dictators: the poets and punks of New York City's downtown. They played on each...

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...can remember hearing this tune on the radio - or seeing the video on MTV - every 15 minutes or so. In your he-e-e-e-a-a-a-a-d, indeed. The Cramps, "Zombie Dance" - Their four-decade reign of campy, S&M-tinged terror came to a close when...

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...Baby With a Dixie Melody." Franklin has always been willing to experiment with different musical genres. Punk rocker founded The Cramps Lux Interior, the singer, songwriter and founding member of the pioneering New York City horror-punk...

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...of rock 'n' roll came back into fashion in the '80s. The 72-year-old "Queen Of Rockabilly" has since recorded with Elvis Costello, The Cramps, and Rosie Flores, been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and continued touring...

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Bluntly, they never quite got famous enough to sustain themselves in the down times, of which there were many. Probably even The Cramps were better known. Certainly the two bands share an intertwined history, not least thanks to...

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...of this years ago and it was worth every penny. A 1981 concert film featuring a slew of New Wave and punk bands like X, the Go-Gos, Oingo Boingo, and The Cramps. Still, my favorite will always be this ridiculously infectious number from Devo…

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Lux Interior, the founding member of cult garage rock band The Cramps, has died. Interior, whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser passed away at 4.30am yesterday at the Glendale Memorial Hospital, California due to a previously existing...

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